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by Leo GrinThe casting of Robert Montgomery (1904--1981) in They Were Expendable was uncommonly appropriate. The suave, handsome actor made his name in debonair romantic comedies throughout the 1930s, but like John Ford he didn't wait until America was dragged into war before enlisting. In 1940, fired up by the...
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Nothing says talk about anything else quite like "Across 110th Street."
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Found this at American Thinker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWxcv0Dummk&fe...
This song "Across 110th Street" is also featured in "Jackie Brown". Quentin Tarentino's omage to blaxploitation movies.
I never saw this movie, but it sounds good.
Joelim, I saw that ad. Very disturbing. I saw your post yesterday that you were meeting about cap and trade and your rep was not even trying to fight it…just telling the damages ($$) Wow.I enjoy making fun of Barry and his background but if we lose focus from
1.obamacare
2.Cap and tax
we are doomed. That's why I don't like to focus on birth certificate. We are in a world of trouble with the whole cabal (Pelosi, Reid and others that are able to control the way our representatives vote.)
Up early on the west coast today. Good morning everybody!
Cool flick with a good cast and great sounds. I believe it's a Tarantino favorite as well.
My Representative voted against it, but the conversation is all wrong about it. He is worried about the job loss it entails, but that presupposes it should be implemented any way.
It is like the fight about freon.
There is no way freon can affect the Ozone layer. The freon molecule is heavier than air. We are forced to act as if it is. And they still are trying to OUTLAW the replacement for Freon. If outlawed then Freezers and refridgerators are outlawed. Not to mention the need to keep medical supplies cold, but……….
I hope enough people wake up to what a disaster Obamacare is to counteract the parasites that lack personal responsibility yet want everything given to them by government.
And the more resistance to this 'healthcare plan' for us, the more it shows what puppets Pelosi, Reid, and Obama truly are.
"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves." ~~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
My uncle died because at the age of 80 he walked a long way outside in 100 degree weather. Now he should have known better, but he was a stubborn old cuss. Think of an old relative who can't handle the heat, and then think of these enviro-loons who just want to stop the Ozone depletion.
So right!
I am making my son save his life savings (a bit of a nest egg) so that he can get cheap insurance –he needs it for his health issues–and thus get him to realize the money it costs and get him take care of himself!!
Sorry, I should have said we are forced to act as if the freon molecule can travel from down here up at least a mile when it is heavier than air.
I just said yesterday "Thank G-d for the man that invented the air-conditioner!" (Grandma used to say coffee.)
Seriously, its tax invention. Tax air, tax exercise…they're broke and desperate and I have no doubt they will do it.
Amen to that!
We need a federal holiday to celebrate AC. Congress should make the second Monday in August Willis Carrier Day.
I am sooooo happy about this TROOOOOL not being ANYTHING!!!
http://defamer.gawker.com/5317104/perez-hilton-in...
I am sooooo happy about this TROOOOOL not being ANYTHING!!!
http://defamer.gawker.com/5317104/perez-hilton-in...
Joe, WOW……American thinker… damn!!!
Spread it around. See if it takes flight.
Peabrain Hilton is now sooooooooo yesterday.
Another ugly movie poster!
Also @ American Thinker.
Peggy Noonan: Sarah Palin Jealous
"You're Peggy Noonan and you're jealous. But it's not the normal kind of jealous, the kind reserved for girlfriends who can squeeze into size 2 jeans. No, it's the kind of jealous that hurts, that grabs your gut and twists, that has you howling with rage into your pillow in the middle of the night, screaming "It's not fair" like a two-year-old denied another piece of cake. It is Sarah Palin jealous…and it is consuming you."
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/peggy_noon...
Hahahahaha
"Pelosi on Obamacare: ‘We Certainly Have the Support of the American People’ "
If Pelosi had the support for this monumental absurdity called Obamacare she would like to think she has, she wouldn't be having to try to convince everyone how 'the American people' support it. It would have already been passed.
Hopefully more Blue Dog dems with integrity will realize how terribly flawed Obamacare is and keep it from ever being inflicted on us.
"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves." ~~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
Saved ti for later, thanks!
I'm curious as to why there seems to be no mention of Walter Cronkite's death on this site. I mean, sure, he wasn't exactly a beacon of conservative thought, but still.
"Pelosi on Obamacare: ‘We Certainly Have the Support of the American People’ "
She is referring to the illegal immigrants (undocumented laborer ) as to being fully supportive
She asked her Gardner and maid,they said hell yeah miss pelosi,especially cause it comes with social security number
I bet that's a great room to be in if any of those guys have gas.
You just did. Uh, I don't know why there is no OFFICIAL mention. Maybe it is because he helped cause the death of many Vietnamese people by declaring the Vietnam War unwinnable after the TET offensive. The TET offensive, as some people know, was won by the US. The enemy by their own words said they were ready to throw in the towel after that disasterous action when Cronkite said the war was unwinnable. You know the rest of history.
That quote from D.H. Lawrence is spot on. I could see it happening 20 years ago. The kids of then and today have it so easy that they don't know what hard knocks are. I'm sure if you asked them they would say it was an extra hard tap on the door.
"Do people have a right to self defense?" If you can answer that question then you are smarter than a "wise Latina".
Another reason might be that since we have been so super-saturated with the MJ stuff, we are afraid to mention Cronkite for fear of encouraging even more efforts by the MSM to convince us what a great reporter, as far as they are concerned, Cronkite was.
General Giap's immediate reaction to the Tet Offensive was to go to the politburo and offer his resignation. The offensive was supposed to spark a general pro-communist uprising in the South — didn't happen (thereby ending the "civil war" myth). U.S. (and ARVN) forces inflicted fatal casualties at at 40:1 ratio. The VC ceased to exist as a viable combat force (the rest of the war would be fought largely by the NVA).
But good ol' Uncle Walt turned victory into defeat.
After we left, there was a killing spree, not only in Vietnam, but also in Cambodia.
The liberals don't remember that part of it.
Great article about Noonan vs. Palin.
One of Noonan's more memorable remarks, though I don't recall the articile it was in:
' "A maid laughing is half taken," said a randy old Elizabethan poet '……she can come up with some good ones every so often.
I didn't know "cheap insurance" still existed…It probably isn't worth much if your son really needs good healthcare down the road.
The whole reason for the ban was to stop depleting the Ozone layer.
I have checked out current trailers on the web. With one or two exceptions they are either uninteresting or annoying.
Is there nothing to look forward to?
No worries – they've been convincing tvland ever sense. I think the greatest way to describe Cronkite's legacy would be to consider that no more appropriate a newsman than Big Dan himself filled the man's shoes.
Inglorious Basterds. This is all I'm looking fwd to at the movies.
Hang in there buddy, hang in there.
Don't know if anyone caught this, but it looks like the GOP might actually be trying to put up a fight for a change:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2MjQ17kDng&eu...
Has been!!!
Anyone see the promo for The Wanted? It's a new NBC reality show that follows a Navy SEAL, and a Green Beret as they hunt Islamists in America … I'm not kidding. The footage looks awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVbbC7SUwgQ
THAT is a great video — very effective. It's so hard to keep up with Hussein's lies, but that video does a great job.
I love the song. . . Bobby Womack!
Have you ever seen it? It's a 70's curiosity but it's not bad. And c'mon–it's got Anthony Quinn!
Aahahaha!
Here's a nice one from an on line collection-
PANIC IN THE STREETS – Terrific picture with Paul Douglas, Widmark, Palance, Bel Geddes and even Zero Mostel
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/sc/posters/we...
maatkare – no, I didn't which was pretty much the reason for my comment; I couldn't talk about the movie, but didn't have any burning issue to bring up that early in the morning. Yaphet Kotto is not exactly a slouch either.
What I thought was curious was yet another Intense Debate anomoly. I stopped by BH about an hour before the open thread officially came up. However, it did come up for a minute, and I left this post. I got the dreaded "administrator must approve your comment . . ." Then, the entire open thread disappeared for about an hour, and eventually my comment showed up right up there at the top. Really weird.
It's the aliens, man…the aliens!
The odd thing is that happened to me at about the same time.
Yeah, there is that. Maybe I was too harsh. There are some with potential, or at least an interesting premise. But nothing that sets the heart pounding.
Joelim – BTW I love the American Thinker blog as well and have been reading it for years. I got a kick out of the post on Peggy Noonan, and another that talks about the whole "CIA gate basically being what I've felt it was all along . . . a clumsy attempt to save face for Pelosi.
I have been having problems with my connection to the internet. Seems my wireless keeps on losing the signal. So sometimes I can't get back quickly for a reply.
That *is* a nice one. Old School. I like it. Great movie too.
I don't know but I did find the trailer to 'Across 110th Street'
It's fly.
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2063205145...
Wikipedia has a good write-up. The freon gets up there because the atmosphere is constantly churning, like stirring a pot of soup. Also, once you get small then "classical" aerodynamics stops working, molecular attractions mean more. They finally figured out the bumblebee can fly since at that size air seems dramatically thicker, like the bee was actually swimming in water. A Tesla turbine moves gases with just smooth plates spaced close together. To the tiny freon molecule it is like a thick stew being stirred, even the heavy chunks will stay on top.
While ozone depletion is real it is very slow, even slower than first thought. The modeling can match almost all of it to human activity, however we know how good modeling really is from "Global Warming Research." With the CFC's gone things should improve.
However, the HFC replacements have been labeled "Potent Greenhouse Gases" thus the AlGore "science" has taken over. We all know how that goes.
Do not worry about losing A/C and refrigeration though. I give it under ten years before we see "clean green efficient" thermoelectric units on the market for home use, like the portable refrigerated coolers for car use. No refrigerant needed but they may use ordinary dry compressed air in tubes to move the cooling from the "heat transfer unit." They might cost two to three times what we now have, at least at first, but hey, no sacrifice too great to save Mother Earth according to the eco-mentalists, right?
Wikipedia can be changed on a whim by anyone. So forgive me if I don't believe it. Second, where do you think OZONE comes from? It comes from the sun. When it depletes it is because the rays angle is less acute, which means it glances off. There is no OZONE hole. Third, I have not seen the incidence of skin cancer changing.
Read a good book on environments by Dixie Lee Ray. She explains it thoroughly.
Quite right. I am talking higher deductibles–not really cheap. Misspoke there.
But for anyone 30 and under, Cronkite is a relevant as Edward R. Murrow was when I was a kid in the 70's–to people of that age he has _never_ been the face of t.v. news, so he doesn't stir any nostalgia. The notion of one person wielding so much influence over news–with ONE BROADCAST a day– is ludicrous now with a gazillion tv/radio/interweb (all) 24/7 choices.
But for anyone 30 and under, Cronkite is as relevant as Edward R. Murrow was when I was a kid in the 70's–to people of that age he has _never_ been the face of t.v. news, so he doesn't stir any nostalgia. The notion of one person wielding so much influence over news–with ONE BROADCAST a day– is ludicrous now with a gazillion tv/radio/interweb (all) 24/7 choices.
May I just Yaphet Kotto is one of the most awesome names ever to grace a billboard. Loved him "Homicide" as the Italian police chief. (Liked him alot in "Midnight Run" and "Live and Let Die.)
I like Wikipedia because it can be changed so easily, it is democracy in action. You have to justify any changes you make (see Discussion tab at the top of every article), back things up with references etc, eventually there is a consensus from the famous Neutral Point Of View (NPOV). When there is great controversy the article gets flagged as such, reader beware. I know many people do not like it, however the most damaging scientific evidence I ever found against Global Warming came from Wikipedia. And it remains a good place to find stuff out quick.
If you like those books by that one author, that is fine. I like a good summary with information from many sources, which is what Wikipedia (normally) provides for me.
Read the article, check out the sources. And if you do not like it, change it. You can even make a "Controversy about Ozone Depletion" article and post your evidence there, linked to the main article. Democracy in action as it was in Ancient Athens, make your case, defend it, see what support you can get. Free Speech, and far more open and responsive with a wider audience than print media could ever hope for. So what are you waiting for?
Thats not what the argument was but …
Freon does not harm the ozone even if we blasted it up there with rockets
When freon breaks down the chlorine is a poison to the environment and people.
The carbon is what is is
Yaphet Koto was awesome as Idi Amin in "Raid on Entebbe" — very menacing.
Open thread-open bashing… Weep no tears for the recently passed "Uncle" Walter Cronkite…I say "good riddance"…he may not have been the single "Founding Father" of modern televised media liberalism but he certainly was a "signer" at the "Founders Party". His unilateral pronouncement that the war in Vietnam "Was Lost" was traitorous and as a result, blood of millions of innocent Asians that DIDN'T WANT TO LIVE UNDER THE YOKE OF COMMUNISM drips from his hands. The Vietnam Conflict was a complex situation, more complex than I can detail here, but for an American 'newsman" to shove his spectacles down the bridge of his nose, lean in to the camera a declare "WE LOST" in the aftermath of the Tet Offensive, AN AMERICAN WIN is UNFORGIVEABLE. Walter, you POS, you pissed on every American service man that DIED in S.E. Asia. F U "UNCLE WALT".
It feels a bit inauthentic…can't imagine the gov't would let the terrorist hunting Green Beret & SEAL show their faces & methods all over tv if they're really tracking hi-value targets (although said faces not hard to look at) Bad title though…all I can think of is that wretched, wretched Angelina Jolie movie. And, sadly, a summer fill-in show that's not a dance or talent contest? We'll see! But Monday at 10 is the last ep of "4th & Long," so this'll be a dvr for me.
Science is NOT subject to democracy. It is not consensus. Wikipedia is not scientific facts. It is opinion. In short, if an experiment cannot be duplicated, it is opinion.
Science methodology is quite specific. The experiments on Ozone were done in a lab.
Here is the way to think of the ozone layer. Have you ever hard-boiled an egg? If you cut a hard boiled egg in half, you will notice that one side is thicker than the other. This is similar to the ozone. Another thing, what creates the ozone is UV rays. What destroys the ozone is UV rays.
When there is a thinning, it is because there are less UV rays to create ozone. Ozone layer being the protection we need from UV rays.
Science methodology does NOT lend it self to democracy. All it takes to ruin one theory is a repeatable experiment.
Ronald Reagan on socialized medicine – Wave of the near future?
<a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs&eu…” target=”_blank”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs&eu…
I've seen it and as I mentioned this earlier this morning, not a bad little movie for the genre. Oh well…
Andrew – I first heard of Bobby Womack when the Stones covered "It's All Over Now." A lot of folks know him primarily as a songwriter, but he was a damn fine session guitarist as well ("Chain of Fools" to name one.)
Let's not forget his performance in a great little underrated movie, 'Blue Collar' with Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel. The guy is flat out one of the best actors ever to grace the screen.
AMEN to that!!!! I would give you more thumbs up if I could.
It's funny to watch–great gritty location shooting, and a relatively young Kotto playing the by-the-book-guy–unintentionally amusing. Great soundtrack…I am in 70's mode this summer…it's great stuff.
In a broad strategic sense, the Tet Offensive was similar to the Battle of the Bulge — a shocking, surprise attack by an enemy that was largely viewed as being on the ropes. Both offensives were soundly defeated and the enemy's military capability was severely depleted.
Two big differences:
1) In one case we finished the job; in the other we didn't. After the Battle of the Bulge, we went ahead with preparations to reach and cross the Rhine. After the Tet Offensive, LBJ called a bombing halt.
2) In Decemeber '44/January '45, Walter Cronkite (who I believe covered the battle for UPI) didn't report that the war was "unwinnable."
So apparently you have not even bothered to read the article, with all the laboratory work and real-world measurements cited, do not even really know what it says at all, I said "it says it is a problem but not much of one," you say "it is not a problem at all," and that is justification for dismissing the article without consideration and thrashing Wikipedia period.
You do realize we do not like it when the libs pull stuff like that, right? "Look, just look at the economic figures on this site." "No no no no, Daily Kos says there is no problem, that whole site must be a bunch of lies!" I mean really, come on, science, discussing of different theories and evidence, going back and forth…
Is that Dixy Lee Ray, marine biologist, former Democratic Governor of the State of Washington, died 1994, books were Trashing the Planet (1990) and Environmental Overkill (1993)? This is not Newtonian physics but a changing field with the research to even formulate the rules still ongoing. With one book nearly twenty years old and the other not far behind, I cannot consider them authoritative without recent research that verifies her work, the "science" is just too new.
Is that Dixy Lee Ray, marine biologist, former Democratic Governor of the State of Washington, died 1994, books were Trashing the Planet (1990) and Environmental Overkill (1993)? This is not Newtonian physics but a changing field with the research to even formulate the rules still ongoing. With one book nearly twenty years old and the other not far behind, I cannot consider them authoritative without recent research that verifies her work, the "science" is just too new.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may97/862869...
Many movie posters are atrocious, but some strike a beautiful balance between images and graphics.
I never saw that poster until today. Underrated film – plus – oddly enough, there is a radio version with Paul Douglas and Richard Widmark which is actually good. Many of the radio adaptations of movies back then are not especially good, but this one hit a high point. The link-
http://cdn1.libsyn.com/relicradio/Thriller68.mp3?...
Paul Douglas is a favorite of mine. Years of radio experience before his film career began. He and Widmark have some nice post-show chatter at the end. Douglas' "14 Hours" where he plays a NYC police foot patrolman trying to talk a 'jumper' off the ledge of a building still looks good after almost 60 years. It's on DVD from FOX.
My disdane for the traitor Cronkite is boundless. His personal bias contributed to the deaths of brave American service people. To H E L L with Cronkite.
"And [after Tet] the Americans had to back down and come to the negotiating table,
because the war was not only moving into the cities, to dozens of cities and towns in
South Vietnam, but also to the living rooms of Americans back home for some time…"
—Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap. "He was the chief North Vietnamese military leader in the subsequent war against U.S.forces. This interview, which was conducted in May 1996, has been translated from
Vietnamese…." Liberal trolls…don't claim that his statements were "taken out of context" or are, as the traitor John Kerry's campaign claimed, an "urban legend".
Thanks for the link. Many of these guys cut their teeth on radio and early live television, which helped to make them as solid as they were. My favorite Paul Douglas role would still be 'Angels in the Outfield'
Of course, I enjoyed 'Across 110th Street' too, so that still kind of makes me strange.
Hang in there on the movie posters.
'Angels in the Outfield' is excellent. Paul Douglas always brings this great humanity to his roles that he makes seem effortless likely because it may have been so in his own personality. His off script comments in any number of the CBS radio shows that he was the announcer for bear this out.
He did lots of TV in the 50s, too.
"14 Hours" is a stand out and it is a pity that his film career was so short – 11 years up until his death in 1959.
For a major star of his popularity in the 1950s, there is comparitively little written material available about him and his career.
I miss Eric Sevareid.
What 'talent' does CBS still have? Hell – look at that. I referred to news people as 'talent' instead of reporters or anchor people or correspondents.
That shows you the mindset that has become so persuasive. Even the detractors speak it now.
Thanks for the link. Great article. As I wrote at Big Hollywood the night I heard the news, Sarah Palin was resigning her office…
She is in their heads. Elites of all sorts and sizes. She is in their heads and it drives them batsh_t.
Sarah Palin is a fighter and a winner.
There's a lot of vile and bombast in your post. Can you back up your claims with facts? Or is this just internet hyperbole on a weekend?
Ya. I wrote a full length piece on "Uncle Walt" yesterday. Go to http://shermansmarch.blogspot.com/
Citation and sources supplied as well as my OPINION about the semi-Commie coot.
Does CBS still "do" news? Ol' Bill Paley would be ashamed…
Any other questions?
The media and political glitteratti can't wrap their collective heads around the fact that an attractive woman would marry her highschool sweetheart, graduate from a college NOT LOCATED IN THE FREAKIN' North East, get annoyed enough about her local school board to join it, then her town council, then eventually get elected GOVERNOR of her state, all the while dealing with the trials and tribulations of being a wife, a mother of five including her precious little TRIG, and now a grandmother while being tapped for a run at the Vice Presidency. It's too much of an O'Henry short story for them, Karl Rove and Peggy Noonan included.
Ya. I wrote a full length piece on "Uncle Walt" yesterday. Go to <a href=”http://shermansmarch.blogspot.com/” target=”_blank”>http://shermansmarch.blogspot.com/
Citation and sources supplied as well as my OPINION about the ol' semi-Commie coot.
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